diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index 74a2fd421aa..788513fc092 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
   "profiler": "0.3.1",
   "pubsub": "1.28.0",
   "pubsublite": "1.6.0",
-  "spanner": "1.41.0",
+  "spanner": "1.42.0",
   "storage": "1.28.1"
 }
diff --git a/spanner/CHANGES.md b/spanner/CHANGES.md
index 842abc10f70..6e4cb0d7665 100644
--- a/spanner/CHANGES.md
+++ b/spanner/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.42.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.41.0...spanner/v1.42.0) (2022-12-14)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **spanner:** Add database roles ([#5701](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/5701)) ([6bb95ef](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/6bb95efb7997692a52c321e787e633a5045b21f8))
+* **spanner:** Rewrite signatures and type in terms of new location ([620e6d8](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/620e6d828ad8641663ae351bfccfe46281e817ad))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **spanner:** Fallback to check grpc error message if ResourceType is nil for checking sessionNotFound errors ([#7163](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/7163)) ([2552e09](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/2552e092cff01e0d6b80fefaa7877f77e36db6be))
+
 ## [1.41.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.40.0...spanner/v1.41.0) (2022-12-01)
 
 
diff --git a/spanner/internal/version.go b/spanner/internal/version.go
index c3cf41cb718..f37b860085c 100644
--- a/spanner/internal/version.go
+++ b/spanner/internal/version.go
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 package internal
 
 // Version is the current tagged release of the library.
-const Version = "1.41.0"
+const Version = "1.42.0"